Hi, I'm Carl Connor. I'm a product manager here at NetApp, responsible for our Google Cloud products and I'm really excited about working with Google and VMware on this as it continues my career focus on providing the best possible storage for your vSphere workloads. So before we get started, I'd like you to take a look at this confidentiality notice. I'llpause for a moment for you to review it. Great. With that behind us, let me talk about what we're here for today. So, customers are increasingly focused to move to the cloud. It could be because of a CIO or CEO directive to move to the cloud or perhaps you're doing it for financial reasons. You have a data center on premises that you need to exit from for either term or pricing reasons, contracts coming to an end. And then there are customers who are looking to the cloud to extend their on premises environment whether it's for disaster recovery burst mode maybe for a busy holiday season whatever the reason customers are finding that using Google cloud VMware engine together with Google cloud NetApp volumes that's my product is an easy way to do that so let's take a look at both products together so first I'm going to focus on why you would even consider bringing your Vsere workload into the cloud into Google Cloud with VMware Engine. And to make it shorter, I'm just going to say VMware Engine.Then I'll focus on my product, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, or NetApp Volumes for short, and how it can help you save money and improve your data protection. So, let's go ahead and take a look. I'll start with VMware Engine, give you kind of an overview of the product, the key customer use cases, and the benefits they see in using VMware Engine. So basically, it's an easy way to just pick up your environment and move it into Google Cloud. It's got the same hardware you're going to use on premises. I'll cover the hardware in a moment. The same software, whether it's ESXi as the core of your Vsspere environment, VSCenter, uh, VSAN, NSX, all that software is available for you with VMware engine. And the great thing is you don't have to manage it. You don't have to patch the software. You don't have to upgrade the software. You don't have to replace hardware when it fails. All that's done for you by the VMware engine team. And I've seen that myself. They've ever since I've had a private cloud, uh, they've upgraded my software. They've I got an email one day and said, "Your node has failed and we're going to replace it." All happens seamlessly without me having to lift a finger. And that's great. And they operate it. They also support it. So when you need support, you just reach out to Google support, open a support request, and they complete it. And this complete solution has been verified and certified by VMware. So you can use it with confidence for your vSphere workloads.Here are the key customer use cases. I mentioned data center extension or migration. Customers getting out of a data center moving into the cloud and they're doing that with the same hardware, the same software networking they would use on premises. Second is disaster recovery. And we'll talk about two DR scenarios. One is where you do your DR completely in the cloud. You've got VMware engine in one region, you replicate to a second region and you can take advantage of NetApp volumes replication to speed that and give you crash consistent protection. We also talk about DR on premises to cloud. That's another scenario that customers are looking at. Virtual desktops, there are lots of different virtual desktop services in the cloud. Uh but there are customers who want to manage the software themselves. Either they're very good at it or they they're they just want to have that control. So whether you can bring your VMware Horizon licenses, your Citrix licenses into the cloud to use to provide your desktop services and along with those you might consider NetApp storage because you could use that for your group and user shares or maybe for your user profiles with something like FSLogix. And then finally, once you're in the cloud, it's a great place to begin to modernize your apps and data. uh we do uh we presented at this conference our pipeline of moving data from a NetUP volumes volume into Google uh Vertex AI and uh if you haven't seen the keynote presentation for insight I encourage you to check it out. It's a very cool demo and shows how you can take advantage of Google AI services and by placing your data on NetApp storage. Once you have it there in the cloud, you can also consider making your cloud apps more cloudnative, containerizing them. Um, using more open- source software and basically becoming more cloudnative with your business applications. So, it's another great way tobegin to move to the cloud. There's the hardware on the left. You can see relatively high-end hardware. I mean 72 hyperthread, almost a terabyte of memory, 20 terabytes of NVMe storage, which in my experience works out to about 10 terabytes usable per VMware engine node and all with a high-end 100 gig uh network on the back end. Google is also introducing a new node type, a V2 node type, which you can find out more about from Google. On the right, you see all the software. Again, all that monitoring, patching, upgrading. Automatic remediation frees you from toil. That's one of the words I've learned from my Google friends is they talk a lot about toil and reducing toil. And this is a classic example of where they reduce your toil by automating and managing the framework for you. Speaking of automation, here's how you create a private cloud. This is a lot easier than when I first installed ESXi, installed VSCenter, and did all that on my own uh on my own hardware. You basically give it a name for your cloud, pick the region, pick the number of nodes you need, and then give it some uh IP address ranges. And in my experience, my cloud was up and running in 30 minutes. Yours might take longer depending on how complex, how many nodes, what region, for example. But once it's done, you have a full vSphere cluster with all the software already installed, ready for your use. giving you four 9ines of availability and fully integrated into Google services and it is a complete VMware platform for you to manage. Here we're show an example of where you might choose to put a thousand VMs on a single ESXi host. Now I don't think I do that at least not for my production enterprise apps but maybe you've got dev test or archive VMs that you want to basically oversubscribe your server with. You can do that. It's up to you to manage it. You get the hardware, you get the software to do what you want. And it's fully integrated into Google Cloud, whether it's Google billing, Google IM, identity and access management, uh Google support, andthe famous Google networking, high performance networking on the back end that lets you uh connect yourVMs and connect them to other services. So, it's a great solution for you to consider.Now let me talk about my product NetApp volumes and how it can help you save money and improve your data protection. So again I'll go through an overview. I'll talk about both data store and guest VM use cases and how it's available.So we introduced Google Cloud NetApp volumes in August of 2023. It was kind of an extension of our work with cloud volume service. It is a fully managed file service in Google Cloud and we support both Linux and Windows clients with SMB and NFSV3 NFS41 protocols and it's fully integrated into the cloud just like VMware engine or integrated with IM. We actually have a G-Cloud API that you can use to manage it instead of our uh CVS REST API. We have G-Cloud command line support for NetApp volumes and of course it's in the cloud console for the user interface. So we're well integrated with all Google services including some you see below obviously VMware engine that's why we're here today managed Microsoft AD cloud logging cloud KMS all those things we're integrated with for your easeof use and then data protection that's what brought me to NetApp 14 years ago is I was a customer I love NetUP snapshots I use them you know on premises I use them for DR protection by replicating to another data center and I also use them for backup with a what we call snap vault technology. We support all of that in NetApp volumes, but it's all easy to use because it's built into the UI. It's built into the APIs. And then security. In our keynotes, we've talked about how ONAP is the most secure storage operating system on the planet, but we've extended that even further with ourpartners at Google. We have uh added additional controls uh as fordata uh residency and access and we've added support for customer managed encryption keys. Now every volume in net volumes is encrypted but by default Google and netapp manage the keys for you. If you need to manage those encryption keys yourself we have that option. So I'll talk about that briefly uh later. So why would you use them together? We see two main reasons that customers look at it. First is the ability to scale their storage separately from their compute and this is especially of interest for customers with big storage needs uh imaging. Maybe it's healthcare imaging or uh geographic imaging or uh other types of images you're maintaining archives whatever it is. Some customers are logging. I've got a telco customer that has monitoring and logging that takes lots and lots of storage, multiple terabytes per VM and they're keeping inthe VM disk files. So for those kind of customers, this allows them to scale their storage while keeping the cost and the number of VMware engine nodes down and that really gives them a lot of uh capability.Second is uh the ability to take advantage excuse me of the data management features that we talked about data protection snapshots replication backup all those and doing those in a cloud integrated cloudnative storage service.So on the left you see the one use case which is data stores on the right the VM guest connect both of them can be used with netup volumes in data stores uh this is generally again for the storage intensive use cases or DR protection of the VMware engine environment using replication you know that could be either the cloud-tocloud DR use case or the on premises to uh cloud use case as well now we have completed certification of this andfull support is targeted to the fourth quarter of 2023. So any day now. Um it uh we're just putting the finishing touches on some user interface and some documentation for you. But uh it's relatively straightforward. You create a peering between VMware engine and NetUP volumes. Then you create the uh NFSV3. That's what we support today. Create the volume and you enable an option to block deletion when clients are connected. That was requested by VMware for high availability of this environment. and then work with Google support to mount the volume as a data store in your private cloud and we'll talk more about that later. Second is the guest connect use case and there are a lot of different use cases actually really popular with a lot of our customers and I'll cover some of these in more detail uh basically for sharing with applications for sharing with users like for virtual desktop and database workloads a very popular one and similar to data store you create the pairing and then [snorts] you mount the volume and in this case you could use NFS or SMB so I talk about data center exit almost every data center has some file sharing going on whether it's an appliance or you're running file service in a VM you're running in Windows or Linux VM. Um using uh NetApp volumes makes it a lot simpler. You're not managing a file server yourself. Uh it's easy to manage uh easy to set up and uh a lot of customers have found this a great way to accelerate their move out of data centers into the cloud. And one of the ones we see a lot is database operations. So let me talk about two customer use cases where we help them down that path. The first is a well-known technology company. They were doing Oracle andby the way Oracle and GCVE are a great combo because you can just bring your Oracle licenses. There's no challenges with Oracle licensing running them in VMware engine. And so they were running Oracle with really big databases and they were using Arman. That's what DBAs like to use. They were using Arman to do backups. They dump to the storage. And when they were using VSAN storage, they were taking 50, 60, 70 terabytes of storage just for their database backups. And that was expensive because they had to add VMware engine nodes to be able to have that capacity. So instead, what they do is they mount NetUP storage volume directly to their VM and then they dump to that storage volume. And to make it even better, they take that volume and they replicate it to a second region. So now I've got two copies in NetUP storage and a third copy which obviously the original database. So they're in multiple regions. They're in multiple places and uh it helped them control their costs. Similar use case but a different database in this case SQL server another very well-known systems integrator. They actually help customers move to the cloud. In their case, they had to get out of two data centers fast. And uh they were moving them to the cloud and so they had a very tight timeline. As they began looking at their applications, they said, "Oh, we use a lot of shares. How are we going to do SMB shares in Google Cloud and they came to NetApp and we helped them set it up. It helped them accelerate their move out of their data centers and into the cloud.I told you about data center use cases. The big one being needing more storage. There's also this one I've got kind of in the middle. the middle bullet there which is a DR use case where they're basically protecting on premises with the cloud or I've got another customer that wants to do uh put production in the cloud and use the remains of their on- premises environment for their DR protection either way um you basically they're able to use a smaller VMware engine cluster for their DR protection uh minimum cloud uh VMware engine private cloud is three nodes so they use three nodes that's enough to run third-party replication whether you're using vSphere replication in HCX or using Zerto or VH uh all of those will run with the three nodes that you have uh as your minimal private cloud and then at time of disaster scale up to meet your needs and it helps you control the cost of a DR solution and beready to meet uh production needs when you have a disaster. There are also customers who just say hey we really want to have NetApp storage for our vSphere environment. So that's always an option as well. Some additional benefits of using Google cloud NetUP volumes data stores. One is the ability to wrap your volumes with your own keys. I mentioned that earlier. Umyou can bring uh customer manage encryption keys to VSAN in VMware engine but it does require to run a KMIP server in one of the VMs. You got to license it. You got to set it up. You got to manage it. It's very easy to wrap NetApp volumes with your own cloud KMS keys. It was you just create the key uh point to it when you create the volume and oreven modify the volume and then it's encrypted with your own key. I've talked about snapshots a lot. NetApp volume snapshot copies are very uh friendly performance-wise. Uh they don't impact your VM performance. If you've been around a while, you know the vSphere snapshots are very uh impactful to performance of the VM. VSAN, they made some improvements, but there are still some impacts. I mean, VSAN 8, I think, will improve that even more. But today, we can do quick snapshots. They don't take a lot of space. We only keep track of the blocks that change. Uh they don't impact performance and they give you crash consistent copies of your VMs. And then your volumes can be quickly resized. You know, you might start off at 5 terabytes and maybe you go up to 10 terabytes or 50 terabytes or maybe you need less and you're not using it. So, you go back down to 25 terabytes. It's up to you.can change it just through the UI or through uh G-Cloud commands. You can also change performance server service level. You can change from premium to extreme and back. So, it gives you a lot of flexibility in managing here. The volume here the regions where we're currently supported. You can see we're mainly focused on North America and Europe, but that doesn't mean other regions are out of the question. If you have a need inAPAC, for example, please let us know. Be happy to help you uh explore options for using our products together in other regions. So, I hope I've shared a little bit about how you can use the two products together to accelerate your move and do it very simply. I mean, the migration is real simple. You're just doing vSphere replication into the cloud. So it's very simple move. It's the same tools, same skills you already have today, but fully integrated into Google cloud cloudnative support with all the Google services. And then the big benefit is using net up volumes for your storage helps you reduce the cost of that solution. And we have customers that are looking that today and finding that to be of great value.There are other sessions uh you might if you can't attend them here at Insight, you can also uh catch the recording. The first two cover our other cloud hyperscaler products with uh ANF Azure NetUP files as well as uh FSX for NetUP on tap. So those two are interest 1019.3 is near and dear to my heart. This is a session I used to conduct here at insight. It's basically best practices for visere with ONAP. Um it's now led by my good friend Chance Bingan. I encourage you to check it out. But the great news is you don't have to worry about that with storage. We build a lot of the best practices into our storage products so you don't have to worry about a lot of those details. But in any event, I encourage you to check it out. The QR code on the screen maps to the first URL here which is basically our landing page if you want to learn more about our Google Cloud VMware cloud products. Please uh check that out. I also have a link here to the documentation uh for Netup Volumes. I encourage you to stay connected and specifically with me. There's my name, my email address. It's very simple. It's my last name, conne.com. I would be happy to help you with any VMware engine questions you might have or NetUP volumes questions. So, feel free to reach out to me. I'll be happy to help you get things set up. And with that, I just want to thank you for spending a little bit of time out of your busy day with me. I hope this has been helpful and I look forward to working with you on a VMware engine net volumes solution. So, thank you very much.